Embodied the German Idea in Potsdam Relic Collection
The Potsdam palace housed an intriguing Bonaparte family relics library tied to Blucher's 1814 captures. A key item was the Memoir of Madame Mere, read to Kaiser Wilhelm I, while Empress Madame Mere’s depiction as a Teuton hausfrau amused her descendants.
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Napoleon
Potsdam
Besida
Vlalter
Bonaparte
Blucher
Émpire
Paris
Madame Mere
Hohen- Zollerna
Wilhelm
Sugar cane grown under paper boosts Hawaiian yields
A Baltimore Sun report notes a novel Hawaii method: laying heavy paper strips over young canes to smother weeds while allowing shoots to grow. After five weeks, weeds die, canes emerge, and slits in the paper release the shoots. Yields rise about ten tons per acre with half the labor saved. The paper uses bagasse residue from pressed cane.
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Hawaiian Islands
Baltimore Sun
When Spiders Molt In Front Of View
A reader recounts how a spider molts, stopping eating, suspending itself by a line of web, shedding the old skin around the thorax then abdomen, and struggling for about 15 minutes to emerge. The process leaves the creature weak briefly before it recovers, a spectacle of extreme interest to youths. A boy tells his mother the spider undressed and hung its dress on a line.
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Hettie
Goat In Regiment's Pet At St David's Day Mess
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers keep a regimental goat as a pet with a horn shield. On St David's Day the drum major and Bully bring a dish of feelig to the messroom and offer the national vegetable to every officer. A drummer's boy once rode the goat and was thrown off, dying on the mess table.
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Royal Welsh Fusiliers
St. David's Day
Elyven
In a Girl's Pocket a High School Inquest Finds Odd Items
A Toronto Republican girl’s pocket inventory lists items such as a pocket handkerchief vanity case powder and mirror, a crochet work kit, buttons a safety pin chewing gum a note from a boy and various unidentified odds and ends, revealing a mix of personal and miscellaneous items.
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Toronto Republican
Inet
Ibery Valley Notes Weekend Social Roundup
Oscar Baumgartner and many neighbors hosted gatherings. families such as Wangon, Hanson, Dennler, Leuchtenmacher, Christen, Dennier, and Hatson shared Sunday visits and farm help. A military discharge arrived for Pvt. Wm. Butikofer from Camp Gordon. A steady flow of kin visited homes across Luana Elgin and surrounding areas.
Illyria Whelms Social Round Posts Week Activities
ILUYRIA WHEMS The Will Pollack family entertained company Sunday Mrs O Turnbull was a caller Friday at the George Gibson home Mrs C L Klingman spent Tuesday afternoon with Eliza Pulver Mrs Fremont Ogie spent Wednesday afternoon in the Wenger home Mrs Ray Shaffer and Son Hershel were callers in Elkader last Wednesday Iona Chapman spent from Friday until Sunday at the Stephen Rothlinberger home Mrs C D Chapman was a caller last Wednesday at the Probert home near Volga Louis Wenger visiting at Emmetsburg with his brother Fred Wenger and family Mr and Mrs Jerome Yearous visited at the Senior Jake Yearous home one evening last week Mrs Fred Rothlisberger was an afternoon caller at Mrs Fred Reichert's home Thursday Anna Mae Kimball spending a week with her aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs George Gibson Will Kerr and family and Zella Westcott entertained Sunday at the C L Klingman home Beasie and Myron Chapman and Elsie Yearous spent Sunday afternoon with Coct and Freddie Klingman Miss Iona Chapman went to the C Probert home Sunday to take charge of housework during Mrs Probert's absence The play Mrs Tubbs Doey Her Bit at the Illyria church Friday evening was largely attended and all reports a fine time.
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Will Pollack
O. Turnbull
George Gibson
C. L. Klingman
Eliza Pulver
Fremont Ogie
Wenger
Ray Shaffer
Son Hershel
Elkader
Iona Chapman
Stephen Rothlinberger
C. D. Chapman
Probert
Volga
Louis Wenger
Emmetsburg
Fred Wenger
Jerome Yearous
Jake Yearous
Fred Rothlisberger
Fred. Reichert
Anna Mae Kimball
Will Kerr
Zella Westcott
Bushora
Rebekahs
C. W. Nicklaus
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Mra
Edward Fahey
Lehman Iot
Cleermont Street
Wrnter
Elgin
L. G. Lesman
Les
J. W. Bopp
West Union
California
Denver
Lackland
Hama
Iowa
Frank Poor
Frank
Wadena
Congress
FR. Berg
R. W. Muehdlenthaler
Waterloo
Berg
Maynard
Nancy
Gus Gunderson
Fuwa City
Arno
H.T. Knudtson
New Chalmers
Nat Goodwin
Marshall
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Jack Shaffer
Wm. Walthers
Leo
Gus Boyer
Verle Kniel
Guttenberg
Kniel
J. C. Jepson
Celwein
J. F. Cole
R. W. Muhhlenthaler
C. J. Harrington
Maa
W. J. Kohler
Weat Union
Heith Keiser
When to Quilt Advertising and Housecleaning Trend
The passage suggests narrowing to halting advertising as a sign of a shutdown. It mocks overzealous ads and notes a recent trend of housecleaning in Digin homes. The tone shifts from a proverb laden critique to a local observation of dwindling promotional activity.
Forget It The Remedy For Numerous Ills
A compact note on Averieno slang and Americanism urging a calm philosophy. It extols the phrase forget it as a universal balm for petty grievances and daily annoyances from editorial boredom to betrayed friendship, advising readers to swallow hurt and move on.
Ancient Greek surgeon tools found in rubbish heap
Old Greek city Colopon yields a complete set of surgical instruments from 2000 years ago. Knives with bronze handles, forceps, skull drilling tools, cauterizing devices, cupping vessels, a bronze instrument box, a stone mortar, balancing scales, and a purple glass beaker likely used by the surgeon.
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Colopon
Packing House By-Products Turn Waste Into Fertilizer
The by-products of packing houses split into edible and inedible parts. Edible waste is minimal. inedible parts include hair horns hoofs and hides. From these, industries like leather soap glue and fertilizer have grown. Nitrogen in horn and hoof waste becomes fertilizer when treated with sulfuric acid.
Morning Fields Voice Reflections On Language And Life
The excerpt contrasts ancient speech with modern prose, noting the frank simplicity of scripture-era translation as unspoiled by reviews or metropolitan influence. It recalls a time when language retained country charm before urban crowds transformed literary activity and erased the lark and daisy from private speech.
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Lowell
Fraternal praise urged as example for church
A bishop recently lauded fraternal societies for their service to humanity, saying the church should adopt their enterprise and unity. He praised the fraternals for bonding men to do good works and contrasted their widespread acts of service with church members' efforts.
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Fraternal Society
Christian Church
Lodge
Fraternitioa
Unveiling Advice on Married Life by Dorothy Dix
A humorous Good Housekeeping column by Dorothy Dix offers pub gent philosophy on marriage. It notes men rarely share tips about keeping wives content while women receive endless guidance from kinfolk on creating harmony at home.
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Dorothy Dix
Deir
Atrilin
Giant mountain cedars thrive at high Sierra elevations
The piece describes giant mountain cedars growing 8000 to 11000 feet in the southern Sierra Nevada and into the Sierra Madre Mexico. It notes trees reaching 16 to 18 feet in circumference, tall upright growth, substantial annual height growth in snow-free periods, and compares American cedars to the cedars of Lebanon and the timber used for Solomon’s temple.
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Hloven
Sierra Nevada
Sierra Madre
Mexico
United States
Sierras
Lebanon
Temple
Jerusalem
Educational problems in India at the Katra Girls School
The Hindu girls boarding unit at the Katra Allahabad school admits only a limited number due to caste rules. A Brahman girl eager to enroll was refused because she could not cook and share meals with Christian students. Helpers offered cooking or dishwashing but caste restrictions made both options unacceptable. Therefore the girl was refused.
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India
Katra
Allahabad
Continent
Capper Hosts Ridge Card Club Social Evening
Mr and Mrs Frank Capper entertained the Ridge Card Club Saturday night for cards and food. Enel Dummermuth left for Hudson South Dakota for a visit and to see his hometown again. The Ladies Aid held a church food sale at the GC store raising funds. Ted Conner plans to work on his brother’s Des Moines area farm. Mr and Mrs Earl Greenley visited from Clayton. local weather and spring hints noted amid small town life. reports of scarlet fever in Donnan. Hans Kelser traveled to St Paul on business.
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Frank Capper
Ridge
Enel Dummermuth
Hudson
South Dakota
Uncle Sem
Ladies’ Aid Society
Kaiel
Ted Conner
Roy
Des Moines
Earl Greenley
Clayton
Jr. H. Bowen
Donnan
Hans Kelser
St. Paul
Air travel promises and social notes from Elgin
A column blends talk of early aviation promises with local social updates. Entries mention the Rebekahs dinner, infant death in Sioux Falls, Elgin’s aging photograph gallery removal, West Union travels, farm advertising humor, and local leaders like J. C. Jepson winning Celawin mayoral race. Names like Frank Poor, Nat Goodwin, Marshall, Roosevelt, and several local residents appear with varied events and movements across the region.
Voices of Frogs Describe Amphibian Calls on Long Island
Dr Frank Overton details frog and toad vocalizations with vivid comparisons. He notes distinctions among Long Island species from the common toad’s low whistle to bullfrog’s booming call and identifies species by their voices observed in youth’s companion.
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Frank Overton
Long Island
Ike
Overton
Carpet Weavers of India Illusion of control in carpet loom
In a sunlit shed in India, four or five boys sit on wooden boards as a dictating overseer calls out colors. The workers, oblivious to the overall pattern, twist threads mechanically under the sleepy command, forming a single carpet with no awareness of the larger design.
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India
Why Navy Blue Color Origin in Roman Military
Vegetina in his fifth book on the military affairs of the Romans traces navy blue to the Veneti, an ancient seafaring people near Biscay. The Veneti painted ships and masts blue, soldiers wore blue uniforms, and the Latin Venetus named both the color and the people. Caesar later subdued the Veneti after a severe maritime war in 56 B.C.
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Vegetina
Biscay
Pompeius
Caesar
Keeping a Diary Is An Odd Lock On Time
A short remark on diary keeping notes how some men claim to chronicle years from babyhood onward. The writer jokes about diaries lying, recounting an example where six months yielded two repetitive entries and a final note of marriage to May, suggesting the diary was faked to jolly May along.
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May
Los Angeles
Gude Tidina Muckle Joy in Scots Christmas Tale
The Scottish American reprints a Scots dialect Christmas verse from Tha New Testament In Braid Scots. Rev. Wil iam Wye Smith translates Luke verses 10 to 12 and portrays an angel proclaiming tidings of a Saviour born in Bethlehem with rustic imagery.
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Hawaiian
Ibery Valley
Oscar Baumgartner
Tom Wangon
Tom Hatson
Wm. Butikofer
Camp Gordon
Georgia
Mias
Ada Leuchtenmacher
John Leuchtenmacher Jr
Wm. Miller
Luana
Ben Hofer
Bert Thoman
George Christen
Fred Dennier
Marguerite
Jack Denniler
Alta Dennier
Jack Christen
L. Christen
Mis
Jack Reinhart
Mary
Jack Dennler
Bertha
Dora Leuchtenmacher
Josephine Benson
Alex Baumgartner
Florence
Tom Hangon
Jack Dennier
Dora
Ada
Phil
Roy Leuchten- Macher
Edwin
Ellen
Henry Hanson
Bill- Larson
Jack
Iluyria
Ruthiand (VI) Herald
Instrumenta
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